Vertical-retort gas apparatus.



A. J; ROBUS.

VERTICAL RBTORT GAS APPARATUS.

APPL'XOATIOH FILED JUNE 4, 1912.

Patented 311131 29, 1913.

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WITNESSES A. J. EOBUS,

VERTICAL RBTORT GAS APPARATUS.

APPLIIOATION IlL ED JUNE 4, 1912.

Patnted July 29, 1913.

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VERTICAL RETORT (ms APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE-4,1912.

Patentefi July 29, 1913.

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VERTICAL RETOB-T GAS APPARATUS,

ALPLIGATION FILED JUNE L 1912,

Patented J uly 29, 1912-5 4 SHBETS-SHEET 4.

WITNE55E5 ALBERT J'. RUBUS, OF FAT. LQUIE, MISSOURI, EMSIGITGE TLC EVENS8c HUWARD FIRE BRICK COMPANY, 3 ST. LOUIS, MISSQUBI, A *LORPGRATION OF.liZIiElSUTJ'ETlT.

"JERTIGAlL-RETQRT APFQARATUS.

Il' ,oozmso tfpeeificotimm of letters Patent fiatci'itod July i913Application filed June l, Eieria! No. 701,576.

To all whom ma'y concern: means of induction, and the supply of pro- Beit known that I; ALBERT J. Room, at clucer being regulated by the prin'ury subject. of the King of Great Britain, rcsidair control slidearranged on the clinkeririg log at Louis, Missouri, have invented a.door, together with the external dampers in certain new and usefulImprovement in Verthc wrote gas ofi taltc fiues. ticaLRctort GasApparatus, of which. the I 'lothc chore purposes my invention conf ll ii f ll l d x ct (iQSfi-"l slots in certain new and novel features oftion, such as will enable others skilled in. the root-ion fllltl.arrangement of parts herenrt to which it appertains to make and use rmore hilly described and claimed. 6;) the same, reference lacing had tothe acoou leierri igjy numerals to the accompany-- pmiyiiig drawings,forming part of th s log tlrowmgs ltl des gnates the tu-riuice or ifi tii hi h producer provided W} l1 the usual. grate 11, Figure 1' is avertical section taken ap- 311d prir y oir inlet-opening 12, whichlatproximfltcly through the center of a 'verti to! [S lcrated in theclinlzcrino' door und con-- cal retort coal gas apparatus of m i trolledby means of a suitable sliding domproved construction. Fig is :1vertical 59 13. I 7 section tiilreiiap roximutcly on tho line il--2Formed n the top of the furnace sett ing f Fi Fig 3 i a horizonfiul ti15 on opening lei,- through which fuel 18 or taken approximately on theline 3-3013 trotlocl'ed. l 'ormccl in thetop ofthe furnace Fig. 1. Fig.4 is a horizontal so ion taken sett ng on. ecl ately in front of theopening i p i (m h li 4-4. f Fi 1, ll-l 1S :1 producer gas collectingchamber l5, Fig, 5 is a horizontal section taken approxiondlendingthcreinto ti-om the furnace 1O matcly on the line 5-4 of Fig. 1,and Fig, is u sc 'lcs of openingslo. G is a vertical section tokenapproxiuuitely The setting 17 in which the retort chzinr on the line %56of Fig. 2. her 18 is liormcd occupies a position imme- M inventionrclutes to new and useful (lintcly to the rzrr ot r nd above the furimprovements in vertical retort benches mice and arranged withurthcretort (lltllllutilized for the distillation of coal in the hcr 1S :1sic of retorts 15) which receive, production of gas, 1 the coal to bedistillcd. Tho lower cnds of go The principal objects ol my inventionare, these retorts are supported ui any suitable to generally improve,on the existing types umnucr and are provided u'ith the usual reotvertical rctort benches, to cli'cctivcly and movable plates ormouth-pieces 20. cconomically heat the rctorts, to provide TheI'Cttlll'fi arcsupportcd and strcngthsimple meniis for controlling thetcmperccued or; the exterior by mean? of piers 2i 5 turc. within theretort chznnbor, and likewise and Walls 22, which latter are arrangedliccontrol the ottdnhc or discharge of waste tween the rctorts and thoWalls of the rcheat and gases from tho retort chumbcr by t rt t'llfllllwl. im Mi d upp rlinr and moons ott externally oporntcd dampers andstrengthening walls are preferably provided slides. ivith archedopenings 23 in order to permit Further objects of my improved invcn- :1tree circulnthm ot the burning; gases and lion are, to provide apioduccr gas collectthe products of combustion throughout the lugchzuubcr that is located between and entire hcighl of the retort chouibeThese has commuuiculioi: with the producer furpierr's 21 ud walls areprovided and arranged mice and the retort. chamber, to provide sepsothat any pressure on tho retorts doc to arutc distributing fines forconveying the the, Weight of tho charge Within said i'otolts v producergases and the secondary air to the or due to expansion of material willbc lower portion of lhcrotort chnmhcr. to protransmitted to the Walls ofthe retort chumvidcfor the :u-rmigexucut ol thc furnnccs her, therebypreventing said rctorts from and rccupcrulors at tho back of and belowbecoming distorted clue to expansion. 0 the retort chamber so that theFtCOlKldI'y air The 111921115 employed for Supportiugund colo thc retortchamber principally by reinforcing tho rc orts Within t llo chamber arecaused to pass communicate This last. uu-ntioned waste 19 is iull set,forth and clain'ied in an application tor patent tiled by me October1st,

disposed waste gas lines :26 formed of squaretiles arranged in rows, andthe ends of these waste gas ilues connect with vertically disposed tlues27 and 28. The lower pair of these flues 26 communicate with the stack29, and by means of batlle plates vertically disposed. lines enteringthe reeuperators backward and forward llues before entering the opening30 located in the 28 the waste gases through the various outlet.- to thestack.

I Formed between and to the sides of the tiles forming the waste gasfines are sec ondary air passage the secondary air through openings 32at the bottom of the recuperators. The free ends of these secondary airpassage ways with secondary air tlues which latter occupy positions tothe sides of the producer gas collecting chamber 15, and said secondaryair fines 33 lead to a secondary air distributing fine 34, that isformed in the walls around the retort chamber immediately above theproducer gas distributing flue 24:. This secondary air distributing fine34 extends around the lour sides of the retort chamber, and leading tromsaid (l ne into the retort chamber is a series of secondary air inletopenings Leading from the waste gas fines 26 in the upper ends of therecuperators upwardly through the corresponding wall of the retortsetting are vertically disposed waste gas lines 36. and formed in the'alls of the retort chamber a suitable distance above the secondary airdistril'iuting tine is a waste gas collecting fine 37 that communicateswith said fines 36. Leading from the corn tral portion of the retortchamber into this collecting tlue are, waste gas outlets 3R, an'darranged to slide through the walls of the retort chamber between theseopenings and the line it" are dampers 39. l rn'med in the upper portionof the retort setting is a second aste gas collecting inn thereinto fromthe upper end of the retort chamber is a series of outlet openinns 4-1.

Dampers l are arranged to slide through the walls between the openings Hand collt-cl lHL' ilue 40 for the purpose of cont rolling t discharge otwaste gases into this flue gas collecting ways 31 which receive tlue4-0, and lead-' fine. 40 comrm'iuicates with the upper ends of the tlues'36.

In (iperation the retorts it) are charged with coal from which gas is tobe made. and when the furnace 10- is tired the producer gases arisingtherefrom enter the collecting chamber 17 and pass from thence throughthe producer e as distributing flue 2i and dis charge therefrom throughthe openings into the lower portions ot the retort chamher. The primaryair enters the producer furnace through the opening 12, the volume ofwhich [)I'llt'ltll' air is controlled by the damper 13. The secondaryair enters the recuperators through. the openings 32 and passes upi'ard, bark and forth through the. pa sage ways ill and finally enter;the secondary air tines 533. From said tlues the secondary air passesinto the distributing ilue iii an discharges therelrtnn through theopeniiu 33 into the retort chamber in a plane just above the point ofdischarge of the producer gases. The initial combustion oi the producergases and secondary air takes place in the lower portion of the retort.chamber. and the beat. and products of combustion rise through saidretort; chamber and circulate through the arched openings in the wallsThe. waste gases are drawn from the upper portion of the retort chamberthrough the tlues 3? and 40, and said gases pass downward through thetines 36 which lead to the recu 'ierators. The waste gases pass t'romti.lower ends of the tines 36 through the upper pairs of lines 26 and fromthence backward and'torward through the lower fines, and finallydischarge into the stack outlet 29. By providing two waste ,Q'ascollecting fines and arranging the same a suitable distance apart intheupper portion of the. retort setting, the waste gases can be drawnoff'from diti ere 'it levels, tl'iereby con-' trolling the heat. withinthe retort chamber and avoiding undue heating of the upper portionthereof. The waste gases passing through the recuperatm's providessntlicieut heat for the secondary air which passes upward through saidrecupcrators and enters the lower portion of the retort chamber.

By my improvedconstruction the produr-er gas and secondary air enter theretort chamber at comparatively low velocity, thereby avoiding any unduelocal heating, and by delivering" the producer and secondary airinto theretort. chamber at approximately the same level comparatively longflames are generated du n combustiom'thereby uniformlyheating t eretorts to the desired temperature I 1y providing two or more waste gascollct'tin uj fines and arranging dampers in the same the heat withinthe upper. portion of the retort -.han'iber can be Very readilycontrolled and accurately regulated without the ire of ballle plates andthus the'proper osses rlcg'rce of heat is maintained with practically anequilibrium, that is, without draft or pressure. Thus the products ofcombustion pass through the retort chamber at a very low velo =ity,consequently allowing the heat from said products of combustion to betransmitted through the retort Willi-5 and efiect a thoroughfcurbonimtion of the charge within sold retcrts in my improvedconstruction the producer gas collecting chamber is locuterliininczliately ebcve the producer gas furnace, end the producer gasdistributing flue is extended preferably around all four sides of thelower portion of the retortchumber, and the inlet openings 35 from saiddistributing line to the retort chamber provides means where-- by theproducer gas delivered equally at all points into the lower portion orsaid retort chamber, Likewise tl'iessosndsr, air is dciivercri equallyon oil sides of the retort chamber in'uncrlictely ubovethe inletopenings "for the producer and thus combos tion takes place on all sidesof all of the retorts, thereby obtaining an equal distribution of thehost.

lo the eccompsnying Cll'lLWiIIgS I here illustrated a bench. of retorts,but. it Will be readily understood that :1 greater or less number ofretorts may housed in one setting,

It Will be readily understood that minor changes in the size, form andconstruction of the various parts of my improved retort can be made andsubstituted-for those herein shown and described Without departing fromthe spirit of my invention, the scope of which is set forth in theappended claims.

I claim:

1 in a cool. gas apparatus of the class described, a retort chamber,verticsily' clis posed retorts therein, means whereby cormretort chamberinto each. collecting flue, uiul means for controlling the passage ofWaste gases into said collecting lines.

3. In a coal apparatus, ll, retort chunn T her, a series of vertically"isposerl retorts arranged therein, means whereby protln cr gas and airis delivered into the lower nor-f I inlet opei'nngs tron; soul line intosaid re tion of the retort chen1ber, u plurality of Waste gas collectingilucs extending round the retort chamber, and Waste gas outlets lleading from the upper portion of the retort chamber at differentelevations and communicating with said waste gas collecting lines.

4:. in. a coal apparatus, a retort chamber, a, series of verticallydisposed retorts s1" ranged therein, means whereby producer gas and airclclivcrecl into the lower portion of the retort chamber, e plu'ralityof Waste gas collecting flues extending around the retort chamber, wasteoutlets lead ing from the upper portion of the retort chamber atclilierentelevations and con inunicating with soitl Waste gas collectinglines, and means for controlling the clischarge or gases curl protlnctsof combustion throu h said outlet In a vertical cool tlucer furnace, a.i tort with vcrti rec lector chin r interposed. i mice ontl retortchamber extc ter and having comnninicstio. with the pro ciucer furnaceanti the retort clunnber, a. series of Waste gas collccti lncs leadingfrom the retort chamber at z rentclevetions, and means for controllingsage of waste fines. I

In a, cool gas appsrctus of the class described, it producer 'urnucc, unt chamber containing verticsl rctoriy producer gas collecting clninberbetween the furnace and retort chamber external to the latter :rnclliming crunniunicution b said furnace anti retort chamber, it its fordeliveringsecondary air into the 1 wer portion of the retort chamberadjacent to the point delivered into saicl chamber, and u, sen-c o wastegas collecting lines leading; from retort CllL1Ilher :it different clcvitions.

l'lln a coal g ns apparatus of the clus" ovirlcd 4 furthe pasinto sumcollecting described, prmiucer,furnace, :i retort chanr 'her containingvertical retortgc, producer collecting chamber between the furnace cntlretort chamber external to the latter and having communication '1 itlisuitl furnuce and retort chamber, means fordeliver- .ing secondary airinto the lot :1: portion of the retort chamber adjacent to the pointWhere the producer gas tributing flue extending: around the lowerportion of the retort cl'minher, there being tort chsn'il r, a secondarytine extending around thc retort chamber '21" scent to the proercntelevations, anti means for control-- producer gas flue, then: being:inlet upenings In testimony whereof I hm-eunto am); my from thesm-unrlnry fur flu: mm the 111011 1 slgnaiul'c in thv presume of (\mvciinvssw, chamber, and :1 sm'lcs of mule gas mlM-t tins 31st. day ofMay, 1912.

said collecting fines. 1 C. Bxrrum,

